From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Later tonight, the U.S. government will find itself in yet another shutdown, this time of only one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.

Today, congressional reporter Michael Gold

on why Democrats are once again

picking a fight over funding with the president.

It's Friday, February 13th.

Michael, thank you for making time for us on a busy day, where I know we just grabbed you inside the U.S. Capitol.

Yeah, a lot happening here on the Hill today, I would say.

Well, appreciate you making time for us.

As of this moment, at around 3.45 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, it sure looks like we are headed

for another government shutdown, but this one has a very unique twist to it.

That's right, Michael. At this point, it looks like at 1201 a.m. on Saturday morning, the Department of Homeland Security is going to shut down. And it's the only government department that we expect will shut down this time. A single agency shutdown. A one agency shutdown. And that department is about 4% of U.S. government spending. So if you think about the shutdown we had last year as a full

government shutdown and the brief one we had earlier this month as a partial government shutdown,

this is a very fractional government shutdown. A fractional government shutdown. Right. And as you're

hinting at, government shutdowns have become the norm, but even within that weird new norm,

this one is quite unique. So tell us the

story of how we get to a single agency fractional shutdown. So for the last few months, Congress has

really been working hard to pass all of its funding bills. And this is something that Republicans, when they took control of both the House and Senate,

set as a major priority.

They wanted to pass funding bills.

They wanted to pass individual funding bills, not one big package, and really hash out policy

details for every government department.

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